Choir book (Dominican) — 15th century and 16th century; Italian
MS. Canon. Liturg. 291
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Choir book (Dominican) — 15th century and 16th century; Italian
Shelfmark
MS. Canon. Liturg. 291
Associated place
Italian
Place of origin
Italian
Date
15th century and 16th century
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Musical notation
Notation on staves (see van Dijk 1957).
Binding
18th century?, Italian: pasteboards; polished brown leather, blind-tooled with triple lines and stamps to form on each cover an outer panel with centre left bare; spine tooled with double lines around the three bands and a floral tool in each panel, no title or label; two fore-edge clasps with brown leather straps tooled with blind double lines, each tipped with a fine dark-metal scallop-shaped catch which once fitted onto a lost pin at the edge of the lower board; edges speckled with red and brown. 169–170 122 c. 30 (book closed). Identical clasps are at MS. Canon. Liturg. 158, but with different 18th-century binding style.
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Title
A Choir book
Shelfmark
MS. Canon. Liturg. 291
Summary
A Choir book, with musical notes, for a Dominican nunnery ('priorisa' on fols. 52, 66: St. Dominic twice in the litany, fol. 99), consisting of Antiphons, Benedictions, Office for the Dead, etc. At fol. 35v is a list of tones.
There are a few additions in a 16th cent. hand, partly in Italian, as at fol 115v; 'Memorial de libri grandi che si canta in coro.'.
Date
Written in the 15th and 16th century in Italy
Language
Latin
Physical facet
On parchment, with clasps
Physical extent
117 Leaves
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Collection contents
Canonici Liturgical
A Choir book
